أَتَرَكتُمُ غَزوَ الدُروبِ وَجِئتُم

لِقِتالِ قَومٍ عِندَ قَبرِ مُحَمَّدِ

Have you left invading the roads and come

To fight people at Muhammad's grave?

فَلَبِئسَ هَديُ الصالِحينَ هُديتُمُ

وَلَبِئسَ فِعلُ الجاهِلِ المُتَعَمِّدِ

How evil the guidance you have been guided by,

How foul the deed of the willful ignoramus!

إِن تُقبِلوا نَجعَل قِرى سَرَواتِكُم

حَولَ المَدينَةِ كُلَّ لَدنٍ مِذوَدِ

If you come in peace, we will make the outskirts of your encampments

Surround the city, near and far.

أَو تُدبِروا فَلَبِئسَ ما سَافَرتُمُ

وَلَمِثلُ أَمرِ إِمامِكُم لَم يَهتَدِ

Or if you turn away, how evil your journey has been!

Never has any leader fared as badly as yours.

وَكَأَنَّ أَصحابَ النَبِيِّ عَشِيَّةً

بُدنٌ تُنَحَّرُ عِندَ بابِ المَسجِدِ

It was as though the Prophet's companions were

Bodies being slaughtered at the mosque's gate.

فَاِبكِ أَبا عَمروٍ لِحُسنِ بَلائِهِ

أَمسى مُقيماً في بَقيعِ الغَرقَدِ

Weep for Abu Amr amid his fine affliction,

Who dwelled last evening in Al-Baqi's flooded ground.